Poetry of Sappho

Name: Poetry of Sappho
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ISBN: 9780195326727

ISBN-10: 0195326725

ISBN-13: 9780195326727

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jim Powell, Jim Powell

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Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted especially for her limpid fusion of formal poise, lucid insight, and incandescent passion, today her poetry is also prized for its uniquely vivid participation in a living paganism. Collected in an edition of nine scrolls by scholars in the second century BC, Sappho's poetry largely disappeared when the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204. All…

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List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 4.90" wide x 6.70" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Translator's Note


The Poetry of Sappho


Sappho of Lesbos


The Text of Sappho's Poems


Abbreviations and Bibliography


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